Home Theater

NOTE: All images taken using a Canon Digital Elph S100.  Images are reduced to 640x480 and 256 colors to reduce load time.  The reduction to 256 colors causes some color artifacts.  Sorry this makes some of the pictures look so bad.  One of the pictures has a link to the uncompressed image for comparison.

Week of move-in.  Lots of boxes to unpack.  Notice old Proxima 5900 projector on table.  New equipment hasn't arrived.


Second week.  New Klipsch speakers.  Still old projector.  Still lots of boxes!


Third week.  Sanyo PLV-60 projector arrives!  Block-out fabric pinned to wall as screen.  New Synergy equipment rack.  Also, new Panasonic RP-91 progressive scan DVD player, and Panasonic HDS20 HDTV satellite receiver.  Computer hooked up.

Books slowly getting unpacked.  Theater is also our library.

IMX lens arrives.  Equipment on left (top to bottom): Yamaha DSP-1 receiver/amp, Playstation 2.  Equipment on right (top to bottom) Panasonic RP-91 DVD player, Pioneer DVL-700 Laserdisc/DVD player, Panasonic TU-HDS20 HDTV receiver, Sony CDP-CX90ES CD juke box.

Woohoo...a 1360x768 resolution Windows desktop!


Week Four.  Built-in shelves for CDs, DVDs, tapes, Laserdiscs, vinyl records installed.  Synergy rack put into final location.  Cable trays built and installed along top edge of wall/ceiling to hide cable mess.

It's Major League Baseball on HDnet!  1080i HDTV picture!  Oh, and ProntoPro color remote has arrived.  See my custom configuration files at RemoteCentral (Mike Potter's ProntoPro CCF).

(sorry, but reducing these images to 640x480 256 color really makes the screen picture look ugly)
New recliner couch and table have arrived.

oohh, pool table has arrived!  The PLV-60 projector has also been mounted to the ceiling using a Chief mount.  And you can see more of the cable tray along the ceiling.


Week 5? Week 6?  By now, I've lost all track of time!  But the theater is done!  Now we are down to some serious movie watching.  New screen built.  This is block-out fabric, stretched across a 54"x127" sheet of plywood, with screen-door tracks mounted to it.  The fabric is stretched just like a giant screen door.  Black velveteen wraps the mitered edges and covers the wall above and below the projector.  PLV-60 projector is optically zoomed in, pushing the black bars on the top/bottom of the 2.35:1 image past the top and bottom of the screen.  The extra black bars on the left and right are the result of DVD overscan.  The screen is built to 2.35:1 ratio, but actual movie picture is closer to 2.2:1.  Oh well.  It still looks amazing.  This picture is during the daytime with the blinds drawn, lights off, and no flash.  Click here if you want to see the entire full-resolution picture straight from the camera (442 kbytes).

Yes, I need to do something about that window on the left.  Still too much light coming through the blinds.

This is with the overhead lights turned on.

Finally, if you want to see more pictures of the Cygnus IMX lens in action, go here.